Sebastiano Somma Every year during Oscar Week, Pascal Vicedomini creates his organizational magic for Italian cinema in Hollywood, and again this year he it it out of the ballpark! Last Sunday's opening night at the Chinese Theatre at Hollywood and Highland. In true Hollywood style, celebrities lined the red carpet and the press [...]

Quincy Jones , too, was a real sweetheart and loves wooing the ladies! Montegrappa, famous for their exclusive high-end pens (or as they prefer to say ‘writing instruments’) designed the “Quincy” pen and opened their flagship store on a starlit night in July in Piazza Garibaldi, Bassano del Grappa. Their pens have been used in [...]

My good friend Pascal Vicedomini is the Founder of the Capri Hollywood Film Festival, The Los Angeles Italia Film Festival and the Ischia Film Festival. Ischia is a small volcanic Island off the Napolitan Coast at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples and is a real jewel! Pascal highlights films and actors many [...]

Spending June and July of this year back in Italy where I lived for 30 years was truly not only a much-needed break, but absolute Heaven! It’s such a blast rekindling with old friends, but some of the new ones I made were completely unexpected! Needless to say, I gained a few not much-needed pounds, [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qgSbbWiGq0&feature=youtu.be&spfreload=10 April’s main event was very special to me, indeed! It saw me as part of the Executive Leadership Team for the Chicago Heart Ball. My brother, Paul, and his wife, Janet were the event chairs this year and with very good reason. My niece, Sophia, was born with a congenital heart disease. At seven [...]

In May, I had a blast at the California Women’s Conference. Michelle Patterson’s second year of organizing the conference was a huge success. As a part of the Advisory Board, I was thrilled to take my cameras in to interview the plethora of superstars that graced with main stage. In just two days I was [...]

ON October 12t, Tia Walker, Executive Director of the AWREY Circle of Light Awards bestowed me and 9 other entrepreneurial women dynamos in Phoenix, Arizona. The inspiration for the award was “Soft Power” and took place at El Charro restaurant on a gloriously warm Autumn day with our beautiful desert as a backdrop. The AWREY [...]

This is a shout out to my friend, Sharon Lechter who recently came out with her last book “ Think and Grow Rich for Women”. She very graciously included me in her book and we’ve done a few panels together with other fabulous ladies represented the book. Recently we spoke at Jeff Fagin’s 2% Club [...]

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